3 hours ago
Base Salary
$248k - $282k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and execute a technical roadmap for scalability, reliability, developer productivity, and operational simplicity.
- Design, build, and operate highly available distributed services, caching layers, and real-time data pipelines processing millions of events per second.
- Improve query performance, cache invalidation, workload isolation, resource efficiency, and platform data correctness.
- Lead major initiatives from architecture and implementation through migration, rollout, and long-term production operations.
- Partner with product engineering teams to support new capabilities and simplify data access.
- Mentor teammates, guide cross-team architecture, and establish high standards for system design, reliability, and engineering quality.
- Participate in on-call rotations, lead incident investigations, and improve tooling, automation, and infrastructure architecture.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed backend services.
- 2+ years of experience building and scaling high-throughput data pipelines, relational or non-relational data stores, and real-time streaming systems.
- Proven experience operating mission-critical production systems and maintaining high reliability standards.
- Demonstrated technical leadership in architectural direction, cross-team consensus building, and mentoring senior engineers.
- Strong architectural judgment and ability to explain trade-offs to technical and cross-functional audiences.
- Practical expertise with Kubernetes, distributed caching technologies such as Redis, and cloud-native infrastructure design.
- Curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with willingness to apply them to productivity, collaboration, or decision-making.
Benefits
- Mental health, wellness, and fitness benefits.
- Career coaching and support.
- Inclusive family-building benefits.
- Long-term savings or retirement plans.
- In-office culinary options accommodating dietary preferences.
- San Francisco office-centric hybrid schedule, with standard in-office days Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday; Wednesday work from home is generally available and Friday arrangements vary by team and work type.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Asana
Asana builds a work management platform that helps teams plan, track, and coordinate projects and goals, with AI-assisted features and integrations. It sells subscription-based SaaS used across functions from marketing to engineering. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, Asana is publicly traded on the NYSE and used by more than 170,000 organizations, including Accenture and Amazon.